Yes, and even Wikipedia itself can be a fake news source when what’s being discussed are fast moving statistics with political implications.
We need to trust what true experts — at places like the NIH and CDC — are saying.
You are correct about Wikipedia. But if we are looking worldwide and we need to, there will be hundreds of contributors to these articles. That would be pretty hard to coordinate in favor of a U.S. based political narrative.
I look mostly at trends. In terms of new cases the trend is up and at very rapid rates in many countries including ours. They are doubling every 2-3 days. Or the Wikipedia data is bogus. Could be but I doubt it. Check out the anecdotal stories coming from the hospitals. If this becomes a runaway infection we will know it.
But I do agree that the Wiki data from China is useless.